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Using a weather API is an extremely powerful and flexible way to get weather data for any project. Whether you need historical data, forecasts, or current conditions, using an API allows you to automate fully automate the query process. There is no need to deal with web pages cluttered with ads or constantly updating an …
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Visual Crossing’s weather Query Builder makes it easy to build weather API queries and download result data for any date or time period. However, in some use cases you need to move beyond a web-based interface and automate your weather data retrieval. While this is easy to do if you are a coder or scripter, …
Visual Crossing Weather Data offers historical weather data coverage for most locations in the world. To provide as accurate a historical weather data picture as possible, the product looks at multiple nearby weather stations so that the most accurate weather picture is created. This article explains the process used to create the historical weather records, how …
New Zealand is facing the possibility of a state of emergency as the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle leaves tens of thousands of households without power, with more difficulties expected as the storm heads south. The cyclone, first spotted in the Coral Sea a week ago, has reached about 200 kilometers northeast of Auckland and is …
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In addition to providing historical weather observations and weather forecast data, the Weather API also provides astronomical information. This astronomical information includes sunset, sunrise and moon phase data. Why is astronomical information useful? Sunset, sunrise and moon information goes hand-in-hand with weather data in many use cases. The information can help answer some basic questions: …
As C# is still a key language used to build powerful applications both inside the .NET Framework and beyond, it is natural that C# developers would want to load weather data into their applications. Luckily, C#’s built-in functions make it easy to compose and execute web queries and also easy parse the JSON results into …
We offer solar radiation data in both our 15-day forecast and historical observations datasets as well as a solar component dataset in our Advanced Energy package. Both can be included in Weather API requests, viewed directly in the browser or downloaded as a CSV or Microsoft Excel format file. This document focuses on the general …
Learn to use a RESTful URL-based Weather API to load weather forecast data into a simple Java application.
Downloading historical weather data for multiple locations provides a fast and simple way to enrich your business data in Tableau Desktop with relevant weather parameters to analyze their impact. This article shows the necessary steps to quickly and easily generate the weather data for any location of the world and how to load it into …
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On Saturday, the Northeastern US experienced life-threatening conditions due to a deadly combination of record-low temperatures and strong winds. Currently, the Northeastern United States is dealing with severely chilly weather. Low wind chills and below-freezing temperatures have prompted warnings from the National Weather Service in several regions. To help residents who are affected by the …
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